We reward people that deal in complexity.

I'm not a very clever person, and I keep things pretty simple, so when I explain something to someone, they can generally get a grip on it pretty quickly.

To them it's been such a small jump they think, that person doesn't deserve much of a reward, heck I could have done it.

Whereas when someone talks about the complexity, people think, wow, there's no way that I could have done that, let's pay that person LOTS to keep them